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Islington. In this labyrinth the Beast of London dwells. Hunter and Richard battle it, with Richard being the only survivor. Richard and the Marquis rush ahead, to the final confrontation between the parties, in which Islington's true nature is revealed. Islington is revealed to have ordered Croup and Vandemar to execute Door's family as revenge for Door's father's refusal to assist it. Croup and Vandemar also reveals that they had manipulated her father's diary in order to lure her to Islington. Islington wishes to use Door and the key to force open the door to Heaven, where it seeks dominion over all the other angels as revenge for its banishment. After Richard is tortured by Croup and Vandemar, Door agrees to open the door, but she uses Hammersmith's copy instead of the genuine key, which doesn't open the door to Heaven, but leads instead to somewhere else, as far away as she could imagine, presumably to Hell. Islington, Croup and Vandemar are all sucked through the gateway before Door closes it. Door then uses the Black Friars' real key to allow Richard to travel back to London Above, where he finds himself restored to his normal life as it was before he first met Door.
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Anaesthesia re-orients him. As a result, the three succeed in gaining the key. Richard's ordeal greatly changes him, causing him to lose most of his self-doubts; he is now confident enough to interact with other beings of London Below. The three then travel to the Floating Market, where Richard and Hunter seek the Marquis without success. While they are gone Door secretly commissions a copy of the Black Friars' key from Hammersmith, a blacksmith friend of hers. Richard enlists the mysterious Lamia, one of the vampire-like Velvets, as a guide to lead them to the angel's residence.
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Richard, but follow orders from the master rat and let him free. He then travels across the mysterious Knight's Bridge, whose darkness takes Richard's Rat-Speaker guide, Anaesthesia. Eventually he arrives at the Floating Market, where he meets again with Door, who is holding an audition for bodyguards. Going to the Market, a giant bazaar where people barter for all manner of junk and magical items, Richard realises that London Below is not such a bad place.
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168:(in the novel) rather than under Battersea power station (the TV series). This is because the management of Harrods changed their minds about proposed filming. The novel was originally released by BBC Books in 1996, three episodes into the television series run. It was accompanied by a spoken word CD and cassette release, also by the BBC.
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